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We investigate the cosmological perturbations around all three branches of spatially flat universe with different connections in symmetric teleparallel gravity. The model we consider can cover both the case of f(Q) model and that of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-06 Haomin Rao , Chunhui Liu , Chao-Qiang Geng

The Palatini formalism is developed for gravitational theories in flat geometries. We focus on two particularly interesting scenarios. First, we fix the connection to be metric compatible, but we follow a completely covariant approach by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi Koivisto

In symmetric teleparallel geometry the curvature and torsion tensors are assumed to vanish identically, while the dynamics of gravity is encoded by nonmetricity. Here the spatially homogeneous and isotropic connections that can accompany…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 Laur Jarv , Laxmipriya Pati

In this paper, we investigate time-dependent Kantowski--Sachs spherically symmetric teleparallel $F(T)$ gravity with a scalar field source. We begin by setting the exact field equations to be solved and solve conservation laws for possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexandre Landry

Metric-affine geometry provides a non-trivial extension of the general relativity where the metric and connection are treated as the two independent fundamental quantities in constructing the space-time (with non-vanishing torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-23 R. Vazirian , M. R. Tanhayi , Z. A. Motahar

The notion of spacetime symmetry is essential to describe gravitating physical systems like planets, stars, black holes, or the universe as a whole, since they possess, at least to good approximation, spherical, axial, or spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Christian Pfeifer

We discuss the most general field equations for cosmological spacetimes for theories of gravity based on non-linear extensions of the non-metricity scalar and the torsion scalar. Our approach is based on a systematic symmetry-reduction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Lavinia Heisenberg , Simon Kuhn

We construct a symmetric teleparallel gravity model which is non-minimally coupled with electromagnetic field in four dimensions inspired by its Riemannian equivalent. We derive the field equations by taking the variation of this model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Beyda Doyran , Özcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

General Relativity and its higher derivative extensions have symmetric teleparallel reformulations in terms of the non-metricity tensor within a torsion-free and flat geometry. These notes present a derivation of the exact propagator for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

There is a growing interest in modified gravity theories based on torsion, as these theories exhibit interesting cosmological implications. In this work, inspired by the teleparallel formulation of general relativity, we present its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 P. A. Gonzalez , Yerko Vasquez

We show that the well-known problem of frame dependence and violation of local Lorentz invariance in the usual formulation of $f(T)$ gravity is a consequence of neglecting the role of spin connection. We re-formulate $f(T)$ gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-06 Martin Krššák , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

f(T) gravity is a generalization of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), where T is the torsion scalar made up of the Weitzenb\"{o}ck connection. This connection describes a spacetime with zero curvature but with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-19 María José Guzmán , Rafael Ferraro

An exact solution has an axial symmetry is obtained in the teleparallel theory of gravitation. The associated metric has the structure function G(xi)=1-xi^2-2mA(xi)^3. The cubic nature of the structure function can make calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gamal G. L. Nashed

In the framework of teleparallel gravity, the Friedman-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with scalar tensor theory where scalar field is non-minimally coupled to both the torsion scalar and boundary term is studied. Utilizing the Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Ganim Gecim , Yusuf Kucukakca

The existence of self-similar solutions is discussed in symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$-theory for a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker background geometry with zero and non-zero spatial curvature. For the four distinct families of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 N. Dimakis , M. Roumeliotis , A. Paliathanasis , P. S. Apostolopoulos , T. Christodoulakis

We consider homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models in the framework of three geometrical theories of gravitation: in the Einstein general relativity they are given in terms of the curvature of the Levi-Civita connection in torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Laur Järv , Piret Kuusk

Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity is an exceptional theory of gravity that is consistent with the vanishing affine connection. This theory is an alternative and a simpler geometrical formulation of general relativity, where the non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Sanjay Mandal , N. Myrzakulov , P. K. Sahoo , R. Myrzakulov

We study a class of static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in modified teleparallel gravity solving the field equations for a specific model Ansatz, requiring the torsion scalar $T$ to be constant. We discuss the models falling in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Marco Calzá an Lorenzo Sebastiani

We consider a gravitational model in a Weyl-Cartan space-time, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the vanishing of the sum of the curvature and torsion scalar is also imposed. Moreover, a kinetic term for the torsion is also included…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

We discuss an extended Teleparallel gravity models comprising functions of scalar invariants constructed by torsion, torsion Gauss-Bonnet and boundary terms. We adopt the Noether Symmetry Approach to select the functional forms, the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Sebastian Bahamonde , Ugur Camci , Salvatore Capozziello